Violent Protests After School Lunch Kills Children

7/17/2013 5:09PM

At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others are seriously ill Wednesday after eating food contaminated with insecticide at a public school in eastern India, according to officials and doctors. WSJ’s Sonia Talati reports. (Photo: Getty Images)

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I ... hundreds of protesters took to the streets in a village in eastern India Wednesday after at least twenty two children died after eating school lunch there ... the lunch of rights soybean and potato curry was provided under the government's midday meal program ... the meals were reportedly stored in the home of the headmistress ... who has been missing since the incident in early investigation indicated that the film contained insecticide ... but it's not clear how the three became contaminated ... shortly after the lunches began being served soon started painting and vomiting ... and which plane schools that stocks are the neo ... nearly four dozen children from the school in Ghana mom were sent to the hospital according to officials and doctors ... and at least two dozen remained hospitalized ... this isn't the first case of children falling ill after eating those distributed to a government program which serves over five billion pounds of food across the country ... the high officials say they will provide two hundred thousand rupees as compensation ... to families who've lost children